This may be a situation of RTFM (Read The Fine Manual, to be polite about it!)...the better digital cameras out there offer options on the output file formats. If you take the effort to do so, you can download your file in RAW format (basically just the color channels) or TIFF format, both of which can be dealt with by PhotoShop and other tools to create secondary files like JPEGs that our web publishing friends love so well.
As for the "worthy"-ness of JPEG for long-term retention, well...if it's all you've got, then it's all you've got. Better that you take steps ahead of time to be sure you get a format that's acceptable.
Dennis Moser, MILS
Project Director, IMLS National Leadership Grant
Digital Imaging Faculty
Lee College
P.O. Box 818, Baytown, TX 77522-0818
(281)425-6819/(281)425-6557 (fax)
dmoser@lee.edu
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From: Daniel Noonan
Reply To: Daniel Noonan
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 09:17
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Archiving Digital Images
Hi -- When we discuss the archiving digital images it is typically in
regards to images created through a digitization project. In this
respect TIFF is the only acceptable archival format. But what about
images that are born digitally? I take a picture with a digital camera;
I download and a save it as a JPG; I become famous and donate my papers
to an archive including all my JPG images. Are these worthy of
archiving even though they are an "inferior" format? What if they were
not JPG but in some proprietary format - do we try to convert them to
an open format? I'm interested in what people may actually being doing,
what standards or procedures they may have developed for their archives,
and/or what your take on this issue is.
Thank you -- Dan Noonan
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